VOLLEYBALL: Tomball drops home opener to Conroe, 3-2

Published 1:30 pm, Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Tomball volleyball players celebrate a point during Monday's match against Conroe. Photo By Tony Gaines/HCN

Tomball volleyball players celebrate a point during Monday's match against Conroe. Photo By Tony Gaines/HCN

VOLLEYBALL: Tomball drops home opener to Conroe, 3-2

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Even though they got knocked down early and often, the Lady Cougars continued to get back up and fight.

Despite falling behind 2-0 early to Conroe on Monday night, losing the first two sets 25-22 and 25-23, a late run in the second set fueled Tomball High School into a comeback.

The Lady Cougars (7-3) fought back with wins in the third and fourth set before dropping the match in five sets, 3-2 (22-25, 23-25, 25-21, 25-16, 15-11).

“Came out very, very slow footed,” Tomball head coach Cheri Wallace said. “Acting like we were going through the motions. Conroe woke us up in the third game and we started playing better. Finally got that little fight back and started to get momentum going. And in that fifth game, thought we won it after that fourth game and kind just laid down again and let them come back.

“Just very slow footed, didn’t look like we had the desire today.”

Conroe, a team out of District 16-6A, is a squad the Lady Cougars normally will not face considering the difference in classification.

Going toe-to-toe with a 6A team for a five-set match is a good sign for her squad, Wallace said, and they always try to play the best because it will only make them better.

“We always try to play higher level competition because the only way you get better is to get pushed by good times,” she said. “So we always try to play the 6A schools and they always have good competition and hopefully they push us to where it makes us a stronger team.”

Tomball now has a quick turnaround to get ready for the Magnolia Volley-Battle Tournament, which begins on Thursday morning.

The Lady Cougars begin the weekend in Pool B with College Station, Summer Creek and Atascocita.

Outside of those schools The Woodlands, Lumberton, Pflugerville Connally, Concordia Lutheran, Kein Collins, Magnolia, Hutto, New Caney, Cy-Ranch, Oak Ridge, Willis and St. Stephens will participate in the tournament as well.

Heading into a tournament where there are so many quality teams, Wallace said they would have to learn from their mistakes on Monday to find success in Magnolia.

“If we learn from this then we’re going to be a better team,” she said. “If we learn that we have to start stronger and we have to finish stronger then we’re going to be a better teams. We’re going to play good teams when we go to Magnolia and if we don’t show up we’re going to get the same result we got tonight. Hopefully we’ll learn from it.”

Tomball begins play on Thursday morning against College Station with first serve set for 8 a.m. at Magnolia High School.